Business & Education
Accountant’s guide: preparing your nail & beauty business for the 2026/2027 tax year
Ria-Jaine Lincoln, founder of award-winning accountancy practice, The Beauty Accountant, offers up advice for the 2026/2027 UK financial year… As UK nail and beauty businesses review their budgets for April, what do they need to consider? “Making Tax Digital (MTD) – from 6 April 2026, sole traders earning over £50,000 will need to implement MTD-compliant…
Read MoreHow Cuticleco. went from garage startup to popular nail brand
Sometimes the best ideas are born out of necessity – and a little bit of lockdown creativity. Ellie Barnard’s creative spark ignited in 2020, when she launched a press-on nail business from her parents’ garage. But when she added cuticle oils as an upsell, something unexpected happened: the oils started outselling the press-on nails. Fast…
Read MoreHow nails grow & what makes them grow faster
Although it may sound like there’s no rhyme or reason to how nails grow, award-winning nail tech & founder of Katie Barnes Tool Range & Education, Katie Clark (née Barnes), shares the basic factors that affect the speed of growth. The standard rate of growth of a normal fingernail is between 0.5-1.2mm per week, but…
Read MoreWhat makes a good nail client? A nail pro’s guide
Nail mentor, Hannah Clayton, shares how to identify clients that build a healthy business… There’s a lot of talk in the nail industry about nightmare clients. I often talk about the late ones, the no-shows, the constant complainers – aka the mood hoovers! But very few people stop and ask: what actually makes a good nail…
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